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They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.
Joni Mitchell
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Joni Mitchell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 7
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Roberta Joan Anderson
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I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
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I was anti-intellectual to the nth. Basically I liked to dance and paint, and that was about it.
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I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic.
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But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day
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An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child.
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I'm your biggest fan, California, I'm coming home
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Oh it gets so lonely When you're walking And the streets are full of strangers
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I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.
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I wish I had a river I could skate away on?
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Oh, I am a lonely painter / I live in a box of paints.
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If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.
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You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life.
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Applause, applause, life is our cause.
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The thing that started me painting originally was seeing Bambi when I was about nine. I was incredibly disturbed by the forest fire that killed Bambi's mother, and that distress gave me the impulse to create something, as a way of dealing with it.
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My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die.
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You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
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There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.
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I'm drinking champagne, got the head phones up high, can't numb you out.
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I could drink a case of you, darlin'...and I would still be on my feet, yes I would still be on my feet.
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Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.
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